This is the solution that I chose. Again, thanks to all who replied. Looks good in FF355 and IE8 George On 18 Dec 2009 at 11:57, Robert Sullivan wrote: > > Here is another question about tables.  Is there a way to > > specify the column widths globally?  As you can see, I > > repeatedly specify the width in each <TD. > > The <col> tag will do what you want. > > <http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_col.asp> > > N.B. although this is part of the HTML standard, not all browsers > support all its attributes. The page above notes that Firefox only > supports "width" which means any alignment commands will be ignored. > I believe this is also the case with IE8 and Chrome. Your mileage may > vary about whether this would prevent you from using it.